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33  Know you! to drop in the earth the germs of a      greater Religion,
The following chants, each for its kind, I sing.
34  My comrade!
For you, to share with me, two greatnesses — and a      third one, rising inclusive and more resplen-     dent,
The greatness of Love and Democracy — and the      greatness of Religion.
35  Melange mine own! the unseen and the seen;
Mysterious ocean where the streams empty;
Prophetic spirit of materials shifting and flickering      around me;
Living beings, identities, now doubtless near us, in
  the air, that we know not of;
Contact daily and hourly that will not release me;
These selecting — these, in hints, demanded of me.
36  Not he, with a daily kiss, onward from childhood      kissing me,
Has winded and twisted around me that which holds      me to him,
Any more than I am held to the heavens, to the spir-     itual world,
And to the identities of the Gods, my lovers, faithful      and true,
After what they have done to me, suggesting themes.
37  O such themes! Equalities!
O amazement of things! O divine average!
O warblings under the sun — usher'd, as now, or at      noon, or setting!
O strain, musical, flowing through ages — now reach-     ing hither,
I take to your reckless and composite chords — I add      to them, and cheerfully pass them forward.